Latest News from China - 06/19/2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

• [Nanyang City, Henan province] An Advanced Level Teacher Zhang Weimin Is Abducted by Police Illegally
• [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Two Practitioners Are Abducted
• [Donggang City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Many Practitioners
• [Changping County, Beijing] Two Dafa Practitioners Are Abducted
• [Ziyang City, Sichuan Province] Police Arrest Elderly Practitioners
• [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Dafa Practitioner Jiang Shuwen Is Detained in the Daguang Detention Center
• [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Wei Xingzhi Is Taken Away by Police
• Fang Binxing Helps the Chinese Authorities Block the Internet
• [Jiaohe City, Jilin Province] Former Police Chief's Crimes of Persecuting Dafa Practitioners
• [Heilongjiang Province] A Former Head at the Fuyu Labor Camp Persecutes Dafa Practitioners

On May 22, 2003, Ms. Zhang Weimin was arrested by police when she clarified the truth at South Station Road. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.

In mid-June, Ms. Jiang Subi and Mr. Huang Weihua were abducted by police. In addition, a practitioner's home was ransacked.

The Donggang Police Station has abducted seventeen practitioners illegally since May of this year. In June, five practitioners have been abducted illegally. On June 13, Ms. Cao Shuzhen and Ms. Xu Guilan were abducted illegally, and three Dafa practitioners in Xiaodianzi Town were abducted. It has been reported that police instigated criminals to beat Dafa practitioners. Among them Pan Wende was beaten so badly that he was rendered unable to speak.

Donggang Police Station: 86-415-7122964
Xiaodianzi Police Station: 86-415-7752206
Huayuan Police Station: 86-415-7123984

On May 25, 2003 police abducted practitioners Wang Yipeng and his younger sister from their home.

1. On June 11, a 66-year-old woman who lived under the Ximen Bridge in Yanjiang District, Ziyang City, was illegally arrested by police from the State Security Team in the Yanjiang Police Station because she distributed truth-clarifying materials. She was detained in the Yanjiang Detention Center. This is the third time that she has been arrested. Previously, she was detained twice because she went to Beijing to peacefully appeal. The second time she was detained for four months and later sentenced to one year of forced labor camp. Another two older women who practice Falun Gong, Zhao Surong and Ren Yuehui, were abducted on May 11. They were formally put under arrest on May 27.
2. The "610 Office"* in Ziyang City carried out multiple means of monitoring 51 Falun Gong practitioners, tracking everything from their communication tools to their daily actions.

Police unlawfully arrested Jiang Shufang and Jiang Shuwen at the end of May 2003. Two days later they were released, but continued to be persecuted. At the beginning of June, the local policemen came to Jiang Shuwen's home to arrest her. She was not at home, so the police went to her mother's home to take Jiang Shuwen away. She is currently being detained in the Changchun Daguang Detention Center.

Dafa practitioner Wei Xingzhi works in a kindergarten in Wuhan. She was arrested and persecuted. She went to Beijing to validate Dafa in 2000, and was arrested and detained. At the beginning of this year, she was released and came home. Now she is being persecuted again. The details of her situation are unknown.

It has been reported that the Internet blockade carried out by the Chinese authorities and the National Information Industry Ministry is connected with a person called Fang Binxing. He comes from Harbin Industry University and is 40 years old. Because of Feng's work in this area, he was given special favors by the Jiang regime.

Sun Xuezhong was the former chief of the police department in Jiaohe city. Since taking the position, he has persistently persecuted Dafa practitioners. Many practitioners were illegally abducted and had confessions extorted from them with cruel torture. About 200 practitioners were illegally detained. Each practitioner who went to Beijing to appeal was fined 3,000 to 5,000 Yuan**. Over forty people were sent to labor camp without proper legal procedures. Five practitioners were sent to labor camp twice. Many practitioners were detained several times. Whenever there were so-called "sensitive days," policemen harassed Dafa practitioners. Many practitioners were forced to leave home to avoid further persecution.

10. [Heilongjiang Province] A Former Head at the Fuyu Labor Camp Persecutes Dafa Practitioners

The former head of the No. 4 Team in Fuyu Labor Camp Jia Weijun beat Dafa practitioners viciously many times and abused Dafa verbally. Once, while he was riding in a car, the car veered off into a grove. Now he has all kinds of health problems and has been dismissed by his superiors. He was also demoted.

*The 610 Office is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political or judicial systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/6/19/52528.html

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